LobsterDAO 🦞

20 Apr 2025 01:33

because modding & UGC

and also verifiability when there's money at play (there's a history of poker site scandals, self-dealing WoW game masters)

even just changes to game mechanics or economics - on a blockchain you can propose opt-in upgrades

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 23:42

maybe lovable, never used it myself tho

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 23:29

hi lobs

i need a GPT service where i can drop a massive csv, have the data embedded, and gives me a bespoke gpt app -> accounts, payments, etc...

is anyone familiar with a service like this?

i'd love to skip all the App/BE stuff for now and just GTM

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 22:34

I think stable coin integration would be cool, that way they can still sell in-game currency for a fixed price

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 21:51

pay 2 win games depend on whales who are already paying for the latest and greatest in-game characters/items. What is the use case of verifiability there? what are they gonna verify? how much money they lost buying it?

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 21:38

"bro, i got 3 witcher potions and they’re actually mine, like fr fr, on-chain, in my wallet - not yours, not geralt’s, mine"

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 21:32

and yet, does gaming really need a full-blown economy with microtransactions for every fart like most web3 games are doing? i don’t think so. these mechanics start feeling like ponzi schemes, relying entirely on a constant influx of new users to stay afloat. it’s not even about bad games, it’s the monetization system itself that’s flawed. i think we’ll naturally go back to the more familiar revenue models: cosmetics (like skins in cs:go / dota traded on steam marketplace), and battle passes - content or not-related to gameplay balance boosts. but then, what’s the critical need for chain in that case?

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 20:20

you use existing blockchain/defi primitives to establish the market but still maintain control the supply of the stuff being sold.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 19:49

The lower the time between blocks, the less LPs lose to cex/dex arbitrage.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 19:48

most games don’t need to be on-chain at all

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 18:40

yeah but what's the point? Unless you are betting on the outcome of a game, provability has no use case for the end user.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 18:32

I'm converting to this lol

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 16:20

Nice. RFQs are finally in DeFi 😊 we have RFQ also in our routing engine at mc2.fi - but we also compare it to defi and give the user the best route - means either the offered one or better.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 16:09

Crypto should be only used for the economic part of the game instead of trying to decentralize the whole thing which just makes the experience worse for everyone

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 15:48

The opensea link is empty and the minter has no holdings

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 23:44

thank you, i think i found a couple

if anyone cares, pinecone seems to offer a very streamlined process, good rates, and a vercel template

cheers!

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 23:36

Can't speak to any services but GPTs can't read minds, maybe you could refine your requirements a little.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 22:48

video games don't need crypto
much like they don't need microtransactions
interoperable assets are a pipe-dream, no extant publisher will embrace a neutral market they can't rent extract from
highly doubtful the blockchain integrations from M$ or sony will let gamers control their keys
where crypto can work is gamifying financial applications

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 22:15

that's unrelated to moving the backend of a game on-chain.
You can still join that market by design the internal economy in a way where on-chain assets are worth something more (es: gamePass, special items, custom mods, etc) then the in-game normal assets

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 21:48

You definitely don't know how much is the market of pay2win p2e games annually, it's a great opportunity with stablecoins adoption and on-chain card payments

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 21:35

not all game needs it. just like not all game needs a multiplayer mode. But if you want to have web3 for gaming, that's the only place where it makes sense. games that already lend itself towards having a marketplace for in-game items.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 20:51

Same here..

Was rugged using the new bungee interface for cross chain swap...

Usdc to usdc

(then I learned that the slippage was too high)

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 20:19

well a hybrid approach might be better to start with.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 19:49

Even the economics, there’s more incentive for the devs to keep that off chain

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 18:41

Even your provable game state will be generated by some code that will be hosted on a centralized server.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 18:32

Since when the players feel the urgency of verifying the authenticity of an eventual match in a game?

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 18:05

Because then for example the results are always provable on chain and not some arbitrary code on a server/matching engine?

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 16:19

nice one - need to look into the calculations. sounds interesting.

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 16:08

why does the backend of a game need to be onchain?

LobsterDAO 🦞

19 Apr 2025 15:13

LobsterDAO gated town on Towns Protocol - https://app.towns.com/t/0x9310dc660fac02182a2ba91b5063c7c338541fce/